Crossword-Solution: IMPURER 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Upon some occasion a blast furnace had attempted to smelt the flue cinder, and from its greater purity the furnace did not work well with a mixture intended for an impurer article; hence for years it was thrown over the banks of the river at Pittsburgh by our competitors as worthless.

All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until ’tis fine; But when ’tis settled on the lee, And from th’ impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder.

The tide of evil communications cannot be barred back at once, and song remedy the evil which song in its impurer state has done.

Remembering ills, though slight Yet irremediable, Brings a worse, an impurer pang Than remembering what was well.

Whether or not Christianity be the purer for lacking the service of art, is disputable--and I do not mean now to begin the dispute; but that art is the _impurer_ for not being in the service of Christianity, is indisputable, and that is the main point I have now to do with.